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Two or three international schools side by side: curriculum, area, age range and founding year.
Try it free →Read this first: we could not identify an international-curriculum school anywhere in Yasothon province. If that is a requirement for your family, this is a deal-breaker rather than an inconvenience, and the honest advice is to look at Ubon Ratchathani or a larger city. On higher education, we have corrected ourselves: this page used to say the province had no university and no degree-level education. Both were wrong. Yasothon has a state university college and two vocational colleges awarding bachelor's degrees. What it lacks is a comprehensive or Rajabhat campus — degree provision without degree choice. Everything below describes what genuinely exists.
Schools we can name
| Institution | Type | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Yasothon Phitthayakhom School (โรงเรียนยโสธรพิทยาคม) | Government secondary | One of the two best-known secondary schools in the provincial capital. |
| Yasothon Phitthayasan School (โรงเรียนยโสธรพิทยาสรรค์) | Government secondary | The capital's other main secondary school. |
| Santitham Wittayakom School (โรงเรียนสันติธรรมวิทยาคม) | Private primary | A Baháʼí-founded primary school in Mueang Yasothon — the province's most notable private school. |
| Loeng Nok Tha School | Government secondary | The northern district's own secondary school, 69km from the capital. |
| Hong Saeng, Bung Kha, Si Kaeo & Na Prong schools | Government secondary | District secondary schools serving the tambon of Loeng Nok Tha. |
This is not a complete register — Yasothon's nine districts contain far more government primary and secondary schools than are listed here, spread across 78 sub-districts and 885 villages. These are the institutions we could name from documented sources. For a full list and catchment information, the provincial education area office is the right starting point.
Higher education: three degree-awarding bodies, no comprehensive campus
This section used to say Yasothon had no university and no degree-level education, and that its post-secondary provision was “vocational, not academic”. That was our own claim, it was never sourced, and checking it against the institutions' own registers showed it to be wrong in both halves. Three bodies award bachelor's degrees inside the province, and a fourth awards the Thai associate degree.
| Institution | Level | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Mahamakut Buddhist University, Yasothon Buddhist College (มมร วิทยาลัยศาสนศาสตร์ยโสธร) | State university college — bachelor's & master's | 174 Moo 3, tambon Thung Tae, Mueang Yasothon; tel 045-711056. A constituent college of Mahamakut Buddhist University, a state university. Teaching began 22 May 1998 at Wat Si Thammaram in the old town as a centre of the Roi Et campus; it became a college in its own right by university council resolution 21/2550 of 27 April 2007, gazetted 14 August 2007 and effective from 15 August. Its own basic-information page (last dated by the college to 2013) lists bachelor's degrees in Religion, Philosophy & Culture; Government; and Teaching Thai, plus master's provision and a graduate teaching-profession certificate. |
| Yasothon Technical College (วิทยาลัยเทคนิคยโสธร) | Vocational — certificate to bachelor's | 96 Moo 1, tambon Samran, Mueang, on the Route 23 belt; founded 1973 on 175 rai. A member college of the Institute of Vocational Education: Northeastern Region 4, which is headquartered in Ubon Ratchathani and covers seven colleges across Ubon Ratchathani, Sisaket, Amnat Charoen and Yasothon. Its own course list carries six Bachelor of Technology majors — automotive, production, electrical, electronics, accounting and digital-business technology — and it ran a bachelor's-degree orientation for the 2026 intake on 27 May 2026. |
| Yasothon College of Agriculture & Technology (วิทยาลัยเกษตรและเทคโนโลยียโสธร) | Vocational — certificate to bachelor's | Ban Po Daeng, Moo 2, tambon Bak Ruea, Maha Chana Chai district — 604 rai about 35km from the provincial capital, not in it. Founded 21 February 1977. It sits under the agricultural vocational institute rather than the Northeastern 4 institute, and awards a bachelor's in Animal Production Technology alongside certificate and diploma work in plant science, animal science, agro-industry, agricultural machinery and aquaculture. Several of its programmes run Saturday–Sunday for people already in work. |
| Yasothon Community College (วิทยาลัยชุมชนยโสธร) | State higher education — associate level | Moo 11 Ban Bak, Chaeng Sanit Road, tambon Samran, Mueang; tel 045-586295. A constituent college of the Institute of Community Colleges, a state higher-education body under the Ministry of Higher Education. It awards the Thai associate degree (อนุปริญญา), not a bachelor's — a genuine higher-education route, but a two-year one. |
| Loeng Nok Tha Industrial & Community Education College (วิทยาลัยการอาชีพเลิงนกทา) | Vocational — certificate & diploma | 285 Moo 1, Sawat–Nong Saeng Road, tambon Sawat, Loeng Nok Tha; founded 28 June 1996 on 214 rai. Certificate and diploma level only — mechanics, welding, electrical, electronics, accounting, business computing and hotel work. No degree programme. |
| Five private vocational colleges | Private vocational | Yasothon International Technology College and Pornphet Business Administration North-East share one address at 154 Moo 5, tambon Samran, Mueang, and one website; Thai Thurakit Technology College is at Du Lat in Sai Mun district; Maha Chana Chai Technology College at Fa Yat in Maha Chana Chai; Sripipat Inter Technology College at Ban Song Khon in Kut Chum. The word 'international' in the first of those names refers to the institution, not to an international school curriculum. |
The pattern worth understanding is what these degrees are for. The Mahamakut college grew out of a temple classroom and serves monks, novices and lay students reading Buddhist studies, government and Thai teaching. The two Bachelor of Technology routes are continuing top-ups: they take people who already hold a ปวส. diploma and, in most cases, already hold a job — which is also why the agricultural college schedules whole tracks for Saturdays and Sundays. Almost nobody moves house to enrol on any of them. So the practical conclusion the old text reached is still broadly right — a school-leaver who wants law, medicine, engineering or a business degree leaves for Ubon Ratchathani, Roi Et or Mahasarakham — but the premise it rested on was false, and the province is better served than we said. A footnote worth having: the province's largest single campus is not in the capital at all. The agricultural college sits on 604 rai at Bak Ruea in Maha Chana Chai district, roughly 35km out, between Kham Khuean Kaeo and Maha Chana Chai town.
If you are relocating with children
Be clear about which of three tracks you are on. If your children are Thai-speaking or young enough to become so, the government system here is normal, functional and free — and a small-province school is a genuinely gentle place to land. If you need an international curriculum, Yasothon cannot serve you and the choice is really between Ubon Ratchathani, 100km away with a daily commute that is not realistic, and living somewhere else. If you are willing to homeschool or use an online curriculum, Yasothon becomes viable again, provided you have registered properly with the local education area office and have thought about your children's peer group in a province with essentially no other foreign families.
Frequently asked
Is there an international school in Yasothon?We could not find one. There is no international-curriculum school we were able to identify anywhere in Yasothon province — no IB, no British, no American curriculum provision. This is the single most important education fact for a relocating family to absorb: if your children need an international track, Yasothon does not currently offer one, and the realistic options are Ubon Ratchathani, 100km east, or a larger city. We state this as what we could not find rather than as proof of absence. We also looked separately for an English Programme or Mini English Programme stream inside the provincial secondary schools — a different thing from an international school, and common in Thai provinces that have no international school at all — and came back empty on the public listings we could reach. That is our search failing, not proof there is none: ask at the school gate.
Is there a university in Yasothon?Yes — one, and it is not the sort most people picture. Mahamakut Buddhist University, a state university, runs a constituent college here: Yasothon Buddhist College at Thung Tae on the edge of the provincial capital, awarding bachelor's degrees in Religion, Philosophy & Culture, in Government and in Teaching Thai, with master's provision as well. Separately, two vocational colleges award bachelor's degrees under the vocational institutes: Yasothon Technical College lists six Bachelor of Technology majors, and the agricultural college at Maha Chana Chai awards one in Animal Production Technology. What Yasothon does not have is a comprehensive or Rajabhat university campus, so a student wanting a mainstream secular degree in law, medicine, engineering or business still goes to Ubon Ratchathani, Roi Et or Mahasarakham. We corrected this page in September 2026: it previously said flatly that the province had no university and no degree-level education, and both statements were wrong.
What are the school options for a Thai-speaking child?The full national system is here: government primary and secondary schools across all nine districts, with Yasothon Phitthayakhom and Yasothon Phitthayasan the best-known secondaries in the capital, and district schools serving the outlying amphoe. There is a small private sector, most notably the Baháʼí-founded Santitham Wittayakom primary school in Mueang Yasothon. For a child who is comfortable in Thai, the province is adequately served.
What about homeschooling or online schooling?For families set on Yasothon, this is the route most likely to work. Thailand permits registered homeschooling through the local education area office, and online international curricula are a common answer in provinces without an international school. The practical constraints are internet reliability — fibre is available in the town, less certain in the outer districts — and the absence of any local peer group of similarly-schooled children. Speak to the provincial education office before you commit.
Where do Yasothon students go for university?It depends what they are studying. A monk or a layperson reading for a Buddhist studies, government or Thai-teaching degree can stay in the province at the Mahamakut college; a ปวส. holder topping up to a Bachelor of Technology can stay at the technical college or the agricultural college. Everyone else leaves. Ubon Ratchathani is the default, 100km east on Route 23, with a national university, a Rajabhat university and further institutions; Roi Et and Mahasarakham to the west are also in range, and Mahasarakham in particular is a substantial university town. The honest summary is that Yasothon has degree provision but not degree choice.
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Sources & References
- Mahamakut Buddhist University, Yasothon Buddhist College — basic information (own site)
- Yasothon Technical College — programmes offered (own site)
- Institute of Vocational Education: Northeastern Region 4 — institute history and member colleges
- NEEC Ubon Ratchathani — Yasothon institutions register
- NEEC Ubon Ratchathani — Yasothon programmes register
- Mueang Yasothon district — Wikipedia
- Loeng Nok Tha district — Wikipedia
- Yasothon province — Wikipedia
- National Statistical Office, Thailand
- Tourism Authority of Thailand
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Last updated 6 September 2026 · Last reviewed 6 September 2026